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Annie Sloan is to colour what Delia Smith is to cookery. Appropriately, Sloan's new book Paint Alchemy is a step-by-step guide for interior decorators to making and using paint. Likening pigments to spices, she provides various recipes to mix and cook up - from the expected 'egg yolk' tempera to an appetising 'Beer' glaze. Her introduction to paint includes some ingenious examples; the Ndebele people of South Africa decorate their walls with the black acid found in discarded car batteries. Yum,yum. For ingredients visit 117 London Road, Oxford ( 01865 768666)

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